Power-machine



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J. H. W. LIBBE. POWER MACHINE.-

A. 247, Patented Sept. 27,1881.

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J.'H. W. LIBBE.

- POWER MACHINE.

Patented Sept. 2'7,1881.-

I UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN H. w. LIBBE, OF TOLEDO, OHIO.

POWER-MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 247,666, dated September 27, 1881.

Application filed August 17, 1881.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, JOHN H. IV. LIBBE, a citizen ofthe United States, residing at Toledo, in the county of Lucas and State of Ohio, have invented new and useful Improvements in Power-Machines, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide a machine in which power can be stored so that it may be used from time to time as occasion may require.

Myinvention is designed more especially for use in barn-yards, where it may be employed for various purposes, such as pumping water for stock and operating many machines usually worked in such places by manual labor. With this end in view I have designed certain novel organizations of apparatus whereby a heavy .weight can be elevated at convenient times, either by horse-power or by manual labor, and its gravity utilized as may be desired. The machine is more especially valuable where an i'ntermittently-acting power is required, and to more readily adapt it to such work I have provided an automatic regulator, so that when the weight has once been elevated the machine will doits work withoutrequiring further attention. In the accompanying drawings the apparatus is shown as applied to work a pump, and is so organized as automatically to maintain a constant quantity of water in the stock or waterin g trough.

Figure 1 is aside view of the improved powerniachine. Fig. 2 is a horizontal section taken on line :0 x of Fig. 1; and Fig. 3, a detail perspective view, showing the counterbalanced regulating-lever and trough.

A high frame or derrick, A, is mounted upon the bed-plate B of the machine. A rope attached to the top of the frame passes through the pulleyon the power-weight Q, over the pulley a in the top of the derrick, and thence to the drum D. This drum and the gearing of the apparatus have their beariu gs in a metallic frame, X. Upon the outer end of the drumshaft is mounted a large gear-wheel, E, which gears into a small pinion,f, on the shaft F. A ratchet-wheel, G, is keyed upon the inner end of the shaft F, and between the ratchet-wheel and the pinionfalarge gear-wheel, H, is loosely (No model.)

mounted. A spring-pawl, g, on the wheel H permits the shaft F to revolve independently of the wheel in one direction, (when the weight is being elevated,) but looks them together when the shaft revolves in the opposite direc tion. The wheel H gears with a pinion, 'i, on the pump-shaft I, which carries at its outer end the sprocket-wheel J, over which the pumpchain passes. The force of gravity of the elevated weight being transmitted to the drum actuates the large gear E, which, through the pinion f and ratchet-wheel Gr, rotates the gearwheel H, which operates the pump-shaft.

The weight may be raised by a winch; but it is preferable, where there is a horse-power, to employ the winding or hoisting drum L. This drum is secured upon the outer end of the shaft F. A rope being wound upon the drum L in the proper direction, and a horse attached to it, the shaft F will be revolved and the main drum D rotated through the gear E, so as to elevate the weight, the ratchet and pawl permitting the shaft to rotate without revolving the gear H and working the pump.

-I automatically control the working of the apparatus and regulate the amount of water desired in the watering-trough M in the followin g manner: I fulcrum the trough at 'm, so that the longest or heaviest side will be toward the pump, and pivot the counterbalance-lever N at it upon the frame of the machine. A link, 0, connects the outer end of the lever and the trough. The lever is grooved out at P for the reception of a counterbalance-weight, Q. The position of the weight relatively to the pivot of the lever can be regulated by pins q q,which fit into holes in the sides of the groove. The lever N is so pivoted that when its outer end is drawn down itbears upon the sprocket-wheel J and stops the working of the apparatus.

It will be seen that the apparatus will continue to work until the weight of the waterin the trough draws the lever down upon the sprocket-wheel J and stops the working of the machine. low in the trough that it cannot overcome the weight of the lever the end of the lever will rise and the pump will start again.

It will be obvious that my improved machine may be used for other purposes than that just As soon as the water becomes so 9 described, and that the controlling-lever could be so constructed as to be operated by hand to stop or start the machine at pleasure.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim is- 1. The combination of a pump, mechanism, substantiallysnch asdeseribed,for operatingit, a water trough or vessel, and an automatic regulator controlled by the water in the trough to start and stop the machine, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination of the power- Weight, gearing for transmitting the power, the pump, the pivoted water-trough, and the automatic regulator controlled by the water in the trough to stop and start the machine, substantially as set forth.

3. Thecombiuationofthepump,mechanism, substantially such as described, for operating it, the pivoted water-trough, the counterbalanced lever, and the link-connection between the trough and lever, substantially as set forth.

4. The combination of the frame, the powerweight, the main drum, gearing substantially such as described, the pump, and a controllinglever for starting and stopping the working of the machine, as set forth.

5. The combination of the weight, its clevating-rope, the main drum, the gear thereon, the shaft F, with itsloose gear 11 and fast pin- 30 ion f, the pawl and ratchet, and the hoistingdrum and its rope on the shaft F, substantially as set forth.

6. The combination of the power-weight, power-transmitting gearing, substantially such 3 5 as set forth, and a lever to start and stop the machine at will, substantially as described.

7. The combination of the regulating-lever having the groove and pins, the counterbalance-weight, the pivoted trough, and thelink- 4o connection between the lever and trough, as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOHN H. W. LIBBE.

Witnesses:

JOSEPH N. GLoNsE, EDWARD H. RHoADEs. 

